Cades Cove Auto Tour

John Oliver Cabin   Cades Cove gets its grand reopening Saturday after the repaving of the loop road, so brush up on your knowledge of this popular destination with Elizabeth and Jill!

PART 1: Ever hear of a “stranger room”? Do you know how a spring house works? Click here or on the photo to view the video!

Cable Mill   PART 2: Explore the Cable Mill area and meet Ken, the miller! Learn how corn meal is made in this grist mill that was built in the 1860s. Click here or on the photo to check it out!
Henry Whitehead Place   PART 3: Take a look at some of the historic homes and structures in Cades Cove, and the people who lived and worked there. They experienced good times and hardships in this beautiful mountain setting. Click here or on the photo to view the video!

Closed captioning is available for these videos by clicking the caption button in the lower right-hand corner of the video controls.

5 Comments

  1. Suzanne Kerr
    Posted April 28, 2010 at 3:21 pm | Permalink

    Just wanted to let you know how wonderful the blogs are–we are from Ohio-our daughter lives near the Smokies and we have done numerous “Cades Cove Runs”–every time is a new adventure–just can’t wait to come back this summer to see the new paved road–sure missed seeing Cades Cove in March–seeing your blogs makes you feel like you’re there–great job!! Keep those blogs coming!!! They’re great!!

  2. Larry Hayes
    Posted April 28, 2010 at 5:37 pm | Permalink

    Libby, my wife and I have enjoyed Cades Cove for thirty years at least three times each of those years. We are looking forward to traveling back again this year to see the newly paved road. sure hope we see the “bears” too.
    Larry Hayes Bladenboro, North Carolina

  3. tom arnold marianna,florida
    Posted April 28, 2010 at 10:34 pm | Permalink

    my wife and i have visited cades cove for the last 16 years, we spend our thanksgiving there in townsend, always something new, beautiful scenery.

  4. Carla Wilson
    Posted May 8, 2010 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    We were visiting the Smokies in Feb. 2010 and just loved it. We try to visit the smokies every year.
    This is the first email I received and I really loved it.

    Thank you for what you and all the others do to make it possible for us to visit a wonderful place.

    God Bless you all

  5. Lori LeBlanc
    Posted July 4, 2010 at 4:35 pm | Permalink

    I really enjoyed the videos I have visited the Coves two times and yet, I have not seen everything. I am looking forward to seeing it again this year. Thanks for all the videos and photographs, it was beautiful and to bring back memories from my visit,

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